Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding these problems , there was reason to believe in late 1952 that the push towards integration had passed a critical threshold , and so could only go forward at a much faster pace . |
| 3 | If the sectoral approach and spillover were to achieve any great potential , they could only do so on a more limited front — that is , by the six states which had already agreed to the supranational principle by forming the ECSC . |
| 4 | ‘ You could only get in with a pass if you were a member of the project . |
| 5 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 6 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 7 | The reduction in the real wage rate which was a necessary concomitant of a rise in unemployment could only come about through an expansion of aggregate demand . |
| 8 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic student Jonathan Welfare could soon clean up with an idea to rid the danger which dogs our footsteps . |
| 9 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 10 | Erm if I could just stop there for a couple of minutes to er make a point about er independent taxation . |
| 11 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 12 | Hence we could just get away with a 50VA transformer . |
| 13 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 14 | At the depth of a hundred feet , which is what we will be at , we could easily remain underwater for an hour without any risk of either oxygen poisoning or decompression illness . |
| 15 | We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England . |
| 16 | When it comes to pure techno — the real deal interplanetary Detroit descendant , that is — Britain could easily come out with a resounding ‘ nil points ’ in any metaphysical Eurovision Song contest . |
| 17 | If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success . |
| 18 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 19 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 20 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 21 | Fullback Marty Roebuck could also miss out as an ankle operation is likely to sideline him for six to seven weeks . |
| 22 | The Pezzetta starter deserves a good , ordinary Italian white wine to go with it , that could also double up as an apéritif . |
| 23 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 24 | They were very attached to each other and I hoped that my mother could now look forward to a happy old age . |
| 25 | The issue could even boil up to a climax this weekend when Bowe and his voluble manager Rock Newman are due in London to attend the BBC 's Sports Personality of the Year awards programme . |
| 26 | Could well go down as a second own goal of the match . |
| 27 | When the time came to act in Algeria , he could then do so from a position of strength rather than weakness . |
| 28 | The holder of this visiting professorship could then live here for a year and deliver one or two open lectures at which the entire university might once again have the experience of being assembled in congregation . |
| 29 | America could then get away with a mild and relatively short recession , provided the domestic financial system did not spring any surprises . |
| 30 | Still others were specialised cyborgs , part-machine , who could never lie down on a bunk . |